PC Modder brings Raytracing to Resident Evil 3 with “Photorealistic” Graphics Mod

Resident Evil 3 was already a great looking game on PC, but what if you took things to the next level? That that the Italian Modder, MassiHancer, had done, thanks to his work-in-progress “Photorealistic Graphic Mod” for the game.

Using programs like Reshade and Pascal Glitcher’s Raytraced Global Illumination shaders, MassiHancer has managed to add some extra colour grading, more realistic lighting effects, more detailed ing-game reflections, and ray-traced global illumination to Resident Evil 3. This has significantly increased the graphical fidelity of the game, adding new reflections, bounce lighting, new shadows and richer contrast.

Sadly, this mod is not available to download at this time. It currently utilises Pascal Gilcher’s RT shaders, which are only available to his $5/$20 Patreon subscribers. On top of this, MassiHancer’s mod is still in development. In the future, we hope that MassiHancer will release this mod publically, though this may happen after Pascal Gilcher’s RT shaders release out of beta.

The gameplay footage below was played on a system with an i7-8700K processor and an RTX 2080 Ti graphics card. Sadly, the modded nature of this raytracing implementation prevents Resident Evil 3 from utilising hardware acceleration for its raytraced elements. This factor means that this mod cannot benefit from Nvidia’s RT and Tensor cores to accelerate this game’s raytracing implementation.